Day of the Dead 2: ContagiumRated: NR2.5 slimesCopyright Company and Date: Anchor Bay 2005 (Also Taurus Entertainment)Submitted by Jeremy Calow

THE CHARACTERS

Dale Deluca - The orignal dude in the bad sweater stealing the virus in his thermosIsaac - Patient getting out soon, wants Emma to marry himEmma - A patient at the hospital, who says she will marry Isaac, but magically gets pregnant with a zombie babyPatty - Emma's best friend, who shoots Isaac, then turns zombie long enough to kill one of the patients who made fun of her (also a talking zombie)Donwynn - A doctor at the hospital who gets infected but apparently smells like s**t, and fights getting turned into a full blown zombie. Sam - The dreadlocked dude, who likes to play B-Movie trivia with Boris. Some how he had the worse of the virus.. Boris - The token geek, who loves B-Movies and likes to watch Franken Hoes or something like thatJack - The last of this grizzly crew who causes this whole debacle by opening the freaking thermos. Nice work.

LESSONS LEARNED

Viruses are very pretty when they are floating around in the airZombies have very advanced senses especially smell and tasteTermoses are amazing at preserving things over timeBeing infected with a strange alien virus causes your skin to become glue and peel off your body in layersHaving an alien virus in you allows you to be psychically linked to everyone else who has the virus

Did I mention already that this has nothing to do with the good dead movies? Just making sure.

Back in 1968 a russian spy plane went down in the middle of nowhere. At around the same time the american army had found strange vials that look like tampons.The army let this russian spy play around with these vials untill one opened and infected him. Lots of people got killed at this hospital when the cg army cameto save the day.. Some dude in a crappy sweater stole one of the vials and hid it in a thermos, and right before he was killed he got rid of the thermos.

Fast forward to now ish, still nothing really to do with the old movies, and some patients from the Ravenside Memorial Hospital (psych ward) found this thermos. Jack is jealous and opens the thermos wheneveryone else is around. Enter virus. Dr. Donwynn is trying to figure out what they are infected with, while he head doctor who knows whats going on, is making thishis own little science experiment.

Suddenly all the stuff hits the fan, and there is an outbreak in the hospital where everyone and their mothers are turning into these zombies. However, the originalcrew of zombie infectees can still talk and act normally.. only issue is that technically they are dead..

Equally sudden, they find out that Emma got pregnant from this zombie virus, and now the original crew (who have turned to bad zombies) are trying to save the baby.

All of this building to a climax, and then. .. . . .. It ends poorly. But as it calls its self a prequel, it allows for the fact that the zombies are out and aboutrunning around killing people.

I am not entirely sold on the idea of zombies who seem to maintain higher functions, as you describe. "Return of the Living Dead" did a good job of it, probably spot on the way it should be accomplished. The idea they seem to be trying to establish here needed to be the whole focus of a film, rather than just part of the plot.

I had a somewhat tough time figuring out what exactly the makers were actually trying convey. They had some good ideas and then the screwed them up by putting in extra stuff that didn't fit. I can safely say that it wasn't the best 5 dollars I have spent, but I may watch it again at a later time to see if I have forgotten anything, or to solidify in my mind, what a bad zombie movie looks like. hehe..